CARL AZUZ, HOST: Yesterday was election day in Israel.
It`s a Middle Eastern nation of almost eight million people.
It`s only slightly larger than New Jersey
but the vote was watched around the world.
This will determine the makeup of the Israeli parliament, called the Knesset.
That will determine who will be Israel`s prime minister.
It could impact the nation`s security, economy, its relationships with other countries in the Middle East and with Western nations, including the US.
CNN does not have any official estimates of the outcome,
but a major Israeli TV channel indicated that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu`s party had a one seat lead over that of his main challenger, Isaac Hertzog.
While two other TV channels estimated their parties to be neck and neck.
Israelis don`t vote directly for their prime minister. They choose the parties that ultimately determine the country`s leader.
You can find a full explainer on Israel`s Knesset in Monday`s edition of CNN STUDENT NEWS.
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, three nations in West Africa that have been hardest hit with last year`s outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.
Of the estimated 24,300 people who have caught it, almost 10,000 have died. The virus also threatens medical workers,
anyone who has been in contact with the body fluids of an Ebola victim.
An American health care worker who caught Ebola in Sierra Leone is being treated at a National Institutes of Health facility in Maryland.
The patient is said to be in critical condition.
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